Rolf Eissler

Born:	11-19-1912
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Rolf EISSLER, born on November 19th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Robert Eissler (wood-industry, murdered by his cousin Otto Eissler in 1923) and lived in Wien 1, Passauer Platz 8. From 1930-34 he worked in Paris and returned to Vienna in 1934 to study law and medicine. He was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5th year of his studies. He was able to emigrate to the USA via Italy and France to the USA (New York), together with his brother Kurt Eissler (born 1908, psychoanalyst) and his sister-in-law Ruth Selke. He could continue his medical studies in Chicago, earned his medical degree at Rush Medical College and took a residency in ophthalmology at Michael Reese Hospital, both in Chicago. Having become a U.S. citizen, he served as a physician in the U.S. Army during and after WWII. In 1946, he moved to San Francisco and started his ophthalmology practice, which he continued for forty years. He was also on the staff of Mt. Zion Hospital and was a member of the clinical faculty at UCSF, where he taught residents and attended clinical Grand Rounds even after he retired. He married Dr. Margaret Ems, an obstetrician and gynecologist, in 1956 (died 1991) and they had a daughter, Ellen Eissler and two grandchildren, Ethan and Anne Pritikin. He died on March 3, 2007 in San Francisco/USA. Lit.: information of Christine Karner; orbituary: In memoriam Rolf Eissler, in: Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, Vol. 80, No 4, May 2007, p. 38